The problem with the Tigers is they've long been an organisation who lack a clear identity. This is harder to accomplish with a joint venture, but I still think the Wests Tigers had it in their earlier years- a gritty, underdog team made up of the leftovers from Wests and Balmain (both teams who'd been lapped by the opposition most weeks in their last couple of years). Balmain was traditionally the team of the wharfies and Wests were the working-class "fibros"- they could've used this to forge an identity kind of like the Bulldogs as a side who never gave up and who'd always compete, even if they lacked the quality of sides like the Roosters or Broncos, when Brisbane were still a top side.
Instead you've got a team called the Tigers who are effectively Western Suburbs with a Tigers logo. They train at Concord, play at 3 different home grounds (with the majority in the heart of Eels territory) and both sides' traditional heartlands are no longer Rugby League areas. People who live in the inner west would rather go to a foreign film festival or a Greens party Q&A night than a league match, which they consider low-brow. But that doesn't mean the Wests Tigers can't build an identity around their traditional support base. They could be a resilient team who do the hard yards and are prepared to grind out a win, pride themselves on their blue collar support AND have serious top 4/ Premiership aspirations. The Knights in the 90's and Souths in the years following the Crowe/ PHAC buyout were like this.
But as it stands, the Tigers don't exude a clear identity and purpose and just seem like a nomadic placeholder in the current NRL.
